How to Install Cacti on Ubuntu 16.04 / Ubuntu 14.04 & LinuxMint 18

Cacti is an open source web-based network monitoring tool designed as the front end application for the RRDtool (Round-Robin database tool), it allows a user to poll the services at an interval of time and resulting in the graph format.

Cacti is generally used to get a graph data for the CPU and network bandwidth utilization and monitors the network traffic by polling a router or switch via SNMP protocol.

Install Cacti

The Cacti package available on OS repository is too old, and for this setup, we are going to use the latest version of Cacti from cacti.net. Use the wget command to download the latest Cacti package from the official website on a terminal.

wget https://www.cacti.net/downloads/cacti-latest.tar.gz

Extract the downloaded Cacti archive using the tar command and move the extracted files to /opt directory.